Tag: entourage

"People ask me how I manage to work over 100 hours a week," Ruslan Kogan says. "I tell them: I don't work; I live this stuff." For the 28-year-old creator of the wildly successful online consumer electronics company that bears his name, "stuff" is a potent mix of competition, innovation and bravado.

Dean McEvoy, founder of Spreets -- the subject one of the most jaw-dropping business acquisitions in recent Australian history -- shares his insights about raising money and wooing investors (two talents in which he appears to excel).

In a wide-ranging, two-part interview with The Entourage project, online retail entrepreneur Ruslan Kogan talks about how he got his eponymous enterprise off the ground and predicts the future of online business, mobile Internet and television technology.

Inspiring, entrepreneurial dynamo Creel Price is in constant motion, whether it's motivating fellow entrepreneurs, nurturing the next generation of capitalists or climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. He sits down with Jack Delosa and talks about how to start a business and romance your clients.

One of Anthill's own -- two-time 30under30 winner Jack Delosa -- gives us a preview of a video interview with Jordan Belfort, the infamous Wolf of Wall Street. Just a few minutes of listening to Belfort provides a taste of the manic passion, drive and intelligence it required to soar so high and sink so low. He talks about making the big score, serial entrepreneurship, and schmoozing with Richard Branson. He talks about keeping it all about ambition instead of greed.

What truly sets apart the 23-year-old Jack Delosa is that he's driven to bring more budding entrepreneurs into the fold. His latest venture, The Entourage, aims at inspiring and developing up-and-comers while linking them to mentors and potential investors. In Delosa's words, it "connects Australia's best entrepreneurs with Australia's next entrepreneurs."

Ari Gold, the fast-talking fictional Hollywood agent in the hit TV show Entourage, may not be known for his sensitivity nor subtlety. But no one would accuse him of being naive when it comes to business.

Ari Gold, the fast-talking fictional Hollywood agent in the hit TV show Entourage, may not be known for his sensitivity nor subtlety. But no one would accuse him of being naive when it comes to business.